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Start here to find the mathematics waiting to be explored in New Hampshire. Please contact me with additional ideas you may have! Use the links to individual sites for more details. Please note that the field trips are listed in alphabetical order.

America’s Credit Union Museum

Millyard Museum

Website: www.acumuseum.org
School groups welcome: 20 maximum
Pre/post information: Not at this time
Lending materials: Not at this time
Outreach: Yes (traveling exhibit on credit unions, guest speakers)

  • Compounding interest
  • Computation
  • Money

Website: www.manchesterhistoric.org
School groups welcome: 50 maximum
Pre/post information: Yes
Lending materials: Yes (Time Trunks)
Outreach: In-School Programs, Walking Tours

  • Architecture
  • Comparative Economics
  • Engineering & Machinery
  • Geometry (weaving, symmetry, patterns)
  • Physics: Basic Principles
  • Statistics
America’s Stonehenge
New England Ski Museum

Website: www.stonehengeusa.com
School groups welcome: 150 maximum
Pre/post information: Yes
Lending materials: Yes (activity books, lesson plans, books)
Outreach: Not at this time

  • Archaeology
  • Astronomy
  • Geometry
  • Gridding systems
  • Measurement
  • Time & carbon dating

 

Website: www.skimuseum.org
School groups welcome: 20 maximum
Pre/post information: Yes (Reading materials for preparation)
Lending materials: Not at this time
Outreach: Not at this time

  • Geometry
  • Measurement (Customary & Metric)
  • Physics: Basic Principles
  • Time, Temperature & Distance



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Canterbury Shaker Village
NH Farm Museum

Website: www.shakers.org
School groups welcome: 60 maximum
Pre/post information: Yes
Lending materials: Not at this time
Outreach: CSV Outreach

  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Geometry
  • Inventions





Website: www.farmmuseum.org
School groups welcome: 50 maximum
Pre/post information: Pre-visit materials provided
Lending materials: Not at this time
Outreach: Not at this time (hopefully by ’05-’06)

  • Computation
  • Ratios
  • Measurement (weight, capacity, distance)
  • Money & Trade
  • Statistics
  • Surveying


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Children’s Metamorphosis
NH Fisher Cats

Website: www.childrensmet.org
School groups welcome: 50 Maximum
Pre/post information:
Yes (Brochures)
Lending materials: Not at this time
Outreach: Stuffee demonstrations

  • Geometry & Patterns
  • Light & Sound
  • Measurement (weight & capacity)
  • Money & Time
  • Number Sense


Website: www.nhfishercats.com
School groups welcome: 6500 Maximum
Pre/post information: Yes
Lending materials: Not at this time
Outreach: Yes

  • Computation
  • Decimals
  • Statistics & Averaging



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The Children’s Museum of Portsmouth
SEE Science Museum

Website: www.childrens-museum.org
School groups welcome: 75 maximum
Pre/post information: Yes
Lending materials: Not at this time (Available ’05-‘06)
Outreach: “Museum To You” Traveling Museum

  • Architecture
  • Estimation
  • Gear ratios
  • Geometry (symmetry, patterning,tessellations)
  • Kaleidoscopic Symmetry
  • Measurement
  • Money
  • Physics: Basic Principles
  • Sound & Light Waves

 

Website: www.see-sciencecenter.org
School groups welcome: 50 maximum
Pre/post information: Yes
Lending materials: Not at this time
Outreach: SEEmobile

  • Architecture
  • Geometry
  • History of Mathematicians
  • Light & Sound
  • Logic Puzzles
  • Pentominoes
  • Physics: Basic Principles
  • Scale Drawings & Buildings




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Christa McAuliffe Planetarium
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center

Website: www.starhop.com
School groups welcome: 92 maximum
Pre/post information: Yes
Lending materials: Yes
Outreach: Starlab and space demonstrations

  • Astronomy
  • Aviation
  • History of Mathematicians
  • Microgravity
  • Multiplication
  • Scale Drawings
  • Time, Temperature & Distance


Website: www.nhnature.org
School groups welcome: 450 maximum
Pre/post information: Yes
Lending materials: Not at this time
Outreach: Yes (to schools and other sites)

  • Measurement (time, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, distance)
  • Multiplication & Calculations

 

 



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Currier Museum of Art
Zimmerman House Tour

Website: www.currier.org
School groups welcome: 60 maximum
Pre/post information: Yes
Lending materials: Yes (Art Videos)
Outreach: Within 25 miles

  • Geometry
  • Light & Color
  • Dates & Time



(see Currier Museum of Art information to the left)

  • Architecture (Frank Lloyd Wright)
  • Area & Perimeter
  • Gridding Systems
  • Money
  • Scale Drawing & Building




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